 | 1910 - 118 páginas
...wraive for a time. But let us see how a representative psychologist meets this issue. In his own words: I must show you that the fatal consequence is not...on the contrary quite possible, that the life may continue when the brain is dead. When we think of the law that thought is a function of the brain,... | |
 | William James - 1898 - 88 páginas
...is com, monly imagined; and that, even though our v>soul's life (as here below it is revealed to 1 us) may be in literal strictness the function ( of...quite possible, that the life may still continue when Vhe brain itself is dead. The supposed impossibility of its continuing comes from too superficial a... | |
 | 1899 - 828 páginas
...life " or "inner life " as a result of the brain is not necessarily a factor against immortality. " I must show you that the fatal consequence is not...our soul's life (as here below it is revealed to us i may be in literal strictness the function of a brain that perishes, yet it is not at all impossible,... | |
 | Herman Gustav Adolph Brauer - 1903 - 192 páginas
...Nature, and almost a self-contradiction. Hum. Im., 21. Even though our soul's life (as here below ft is revealed to us) may be in literal strictness the...may still continue when the brain itself is dead." Ibid., 11-12. Note 8. Compare the famous declaration of Huxley: "If there is one thing plainer than... | |
 | Herman Gustav Adolph Brauer - 1903 - 192 páginas
...Nature, and almost a self-contradiction. Hum. Im., 21. Even though our soul's life (as here below il is revealed to us) may be in literal strictness the function of a brain that perishes, yet it la not at all impossible, but on the contrary quite possible, that the life may still continue when... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - 1903 - 416 páginas
...Nature, and almost a self-contradiction. Hum. Im., 21. Even though our soul's life (as here below ft is revealed to us) may be in literal strictness the function of a brain that perishes, yet it IB not at all impossible, but on the contrary quite possible, that the life may still continue when... | |
 | William James - 1906 - 138 páginas
...and, sorrowfully or not, according to his temperament, submits to giving up his hopes of heaven.8 25 This, then, is the objection to immortality; and the...may still continue when the brain itself is dead. 26 The supposed impossibility of its continuing comes from too superficial a look at the admitted fact... | |
 | 1906 - 304 páginas
...hereafter to what he takes to be his duty of accepting all the conse1quences of a scientific truth? . . . The next thing in order for me is to try to make plain...may still continue when the brain itself is dead. closely into the notion of functional dependence, and ask ourselves, for example, how many kinds of... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1906 - 632 páginas
...has in strict logic no deterrent power' as regards immortality "; that ' even though our soul's life may be in literal strictness the function of a brain...may still continue when the brain itself is dead.' This he proceeds to illustrate by his 'transmission theory,' but it is not necessary that we should... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1915 - 416 páginas
...immortality? And he answers this question at once by declaring, "that, even though our soul's life may be in literal strictness the function of a brain...may still continue when the brain itself is dead. " 2 This position would seem, at first sight, to be inconsistent. But James soon clears the air by... | |
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I must show you that the fatal consequence is not coercive, as is commonly imagined ; and that, even though our soul's life (as here below it is revealed to us) may be in literal strictness the function of a brain that perishes, yet it is not at all impossible,... 
